Report of the Secretary of the Army
on Civil Works Activities for Fiscal Year 1995
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of the Walla Walla District

Lower Snake River Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho

Existing project. The project consists of a series of fish hatcheries, wildlife development areas, and purchase of off-site project lands for fishing and hunting access. The project will compensate for loss of wildlife habitat and anadromous and resident fishery inundated as a result of construction of four multiple purposes dams and reservoirs on the Lower Snake River (Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite).

The real estate design memorandum, and feature design memorandums on all hatcheries and satellites, the off-project wildlife lands, and the site selection report have all been approved. A final Environmental Impact Statement was filed with the Council on Environmental Quality on November 2, 1977. The DNFH Expansion; Irrigon, Hagerman, Lyons Ferry, Lookingglass, McCall, Sawtooth, Magic Valley, and Clearwater Hatcheries; and water supply are in operation. Transfer actions, whereby the Corps turns real property over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have been completed for Eagle Lab, Magic Valley, and Red River. Fencing is nearly complete at all wildlife development areas. The compensation plan is 91 percent complete.

Estimated Federal cost for the project is $232,000,000.

Local cooperation. None required.

Operations during fiscal year. New work: Off-project land acquisition is 100 percent complete. Letter supplements will be completed for development actions at Myrtle Beach and Magill Public Fishing areas. Hunting access development continues at Windmill, Revere, Shumaker, Pintler Creek, Harstock, Fisher Gulch, and Campbell. Expect to begin development this fiscal year for hunting access at Wallula, John Henley, and Central Ferry and fishing access at Couse Creek, Swank, Asotin Creek, Yakima River, Walla Walla River, and Clearwater River sites. Transfer actions are in process for Lyons Ferry facilities. A design supplement is in place for correcting water supply deficiencies at Irrigon Hatchery. Senate Conference Report (103-672, page 7) directs the Corps to work with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, affected states, and tribal hatchery managers in developing adult trapping and juvenile acclimation facilities for the Upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek, a water treatment facility at Lookingglass Hatchery, and final rearing and/or acclimation facilities for the Clearwater, Snake, and lower Grande Ronde Rivers. These initiatives are required to attain the levels of adult salmon and steelhead runs under the authorized project.